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10 Dec 2016 3:25:35pm

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A couple of my neighbours are over 65 and are perfectly happy not to be a “pensioner”. To the issue of buying food: I help a few neighbours now and then and they all buy their food well in advance, they could not function if they purchased Just In Time. Due to simply getting to the shops with their various difficulties, being health, transport and funnily enough lack of time. Retired people do not have spare time as suggested. They are very busy giving a lot of time in so many ways which the rest of the community simply does not see or want to see. Just looking at where I live, it is the “little old ladies” dragging out the 240 litre bins, cleaning up, doing all those tasks the fit and young don’t have any time to help with and take for granted. If we didn’t have the level of input from the elderly our community would not last long at all.

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